From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Doug Bowman
[bowman@vt.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 2:30 PM
To: 3dui List
Subject: RE: need references

Thanks for the info, Jeff.

I don't necessarily need papers that are specifically
about pinch gloves, but I'd like to find some sources
that at least talk about how they were used and what
advantages/disadvantages they have. I remember the spider
man example from one of Randy's talks.

When you say you use pinch gloves for most of the new
techniques, can you give me some examples? Is the use of
the pinch gloves relatively simplistic in all these cases
(e.g. just using a tracker on the back for hand position/
orientation and one or two pinch contacts for events) or
are there some more novel things you've done?

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Doug A. Bowman, Ph.D.          (540) 231-7537
Assistant Professor             bowman@vt.edu
Computer Science        www.cs.vt.edu/~bowman/
Virginia Tech

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Pierce [mailto:jpierce@cs.cmu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 2:15 PM
> To: bowman@vt.edu
> Subject: Re: need references
>
>
> Depends on how much focus you want on the pinch gloves.  These days we use
> pinch gloves for most of the new techniques we create.  Some of the
> students in Randy's BVW course also built a cool Spiderman world
> where they
> added a touch surface to the palm of the hand so you could do Spiderman's
> web slinging gesture to actually sling a web.
>
> Jeff
>
> At 09:57 AM 5/18/00, Doug Bowman wrote:
> >The first project deals with the use of pinch gloves for
> >effective VE interfaces. I know that Mapes' SmartScene/Polyshop
> >used pinch gloves in some interesting ways. I've also seen
> >a paper from Stanford in which pinch gloves were used to
> >interact on the virtual workbench. I also know about Joe
> >LaViola's flex-and-pinch combination gloves. Are there other
> >references/systems I should know about? Any with novel uses of
> >pinch gloves?
>
>